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Do what Andail and Ultimo say, or else you're gonna end up like Charlie Brown always chasing that little red-haired girl.

I take back what I said. I'm sorry I called you all idiots. Our buddy Phil here makes everyone look like a genius!

Mainly Atari ST games:

The New Zealand Story
Rainbow Islands
Bubble Bobble
Typhoon Thompson
Strider
Shinobi
Llamatron (or any Jeff Minter game)
Kick Off
Captain Blood
Defender of the Crown
Dungeon Master
Total Eclipse
Bubble Ghost
Hard Drivin'
Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
Eye of Horus
Double Dragon
Impossamole
Dan Dare III (has the most awesome intro)
Rick Dangerous
Turrican 1 + 2
Moonshine Racers
Gods
Magic Pockets
Populous 1 + 2

And many more...

If you're looking to get good emotional responses, have a read of his article from Narangas: http://www.sylpher.com/novomestro/stuff/blargh.htm

On that note, I also suggest playing the games mentioned in the article to gauge your own emotional responses. Particularly Seasons of Sakura.

As for the technical aspects, do you need help with the development of the game or would you prefer to script this on your own (since it's a Uni assignment)?

Sounds good. How can I help?

Sweet! We'll definately meet!

You're all a bunch of idiots if you think Phil Roberts is me.

No, seriously, you're all a bunch of idiots if you think Phil is me.

To prove my point, I say this: You're idiots!

Kandy, did you still want to do that other project wih Ginny and me? Cause I'm on holidays now.

You just need a few more dead celebrities and you've got a 7-day weekend.

RIP Ray.

You're still rationalising racism. It's not healthy.

By your logic, this is racism and affirmative action tied in a bow:

"Hello! I'm belive in cultural diversity and equal opportunity, but I judge you on your race, because racism and affirmative action are the same thing! Yes, you're equal to me despite your race, but I'm still going to judge you on your race!"

See, my Bullshit Detector (TM) is going off the wall here. I find it very hard to believe you'd think someone is equal to you (whatever race they may be) and then judge them on their race. It's a contradiction. Either that, or you're just hiding your hate for a particular race.

Look at it in the context of two people of the same race. It's like me saying, "I won't speak to Andail, because he's different to me. Granted, he is equal to me, but I still won't talk to him."

Sorry, Andail! I'll always talk to you, dude!

Surprisingly, yes, I do other things than mocking Hitler. 

It depends because there are a number of different charts.

There's a chart for albums sales, a chart for single sales, and a chart for airplay.

The charts for albums and single get the most press in newspapers and are recorded by ARIA, whereas charts on airplay at determined by requests on a radio station.

Why not post their pictures? Or Truman's?

The american indians were persecuted, the people forced into arenas by rome, Stalin killed millions in russia, Saddam killed many, The fricking pope ordered crusades on Muslims. Look into the pages of the bible and you will see massive murders. God killed almost everyone in a flood

So, "why don't we mock those people?" is what you're asking.

Well, for one thing, look at the context of the threads. The first one (the Brazillian one) was due to someone referencing a Nazi propaganda poster and it went from there. This thread turned into a Hitler pic-fest because someone mentioned the Brazillian thread.

Having said that, I'm sure there have been times in the past when we've mocked God or Saddam (remember the comparisons to Santa?) or any number of targets.

Some people just assume we do nothing but post photoshops of Hitler all the time just because two or three threads (out of a gargillion threads) have a few pics that mock him.

Ah, Stuh. You gotta love someone who can rationalise racism. It's just like Christians who say "I don't hate homosexuals. I just hate homosexualisty".

Racism and hate are different things??? That's news to me.

As for making fun of Hitler and other atrocities: I'm the kind of person who thinks some humanity and compassion is spared when you can at least laugh in the face of war or horror.

As long as people can still find humour, we can cope with anything.

Record comapnies say the main argument against Kazaa etc is that declining single sales means emerging artists don't get the enough royalties from the music.

However, you can also use the flipside argument that record companies don't properly finance emerging artists.

To my understanding, the way the industry usually works (and correct me if I'm wrong) is the artist fills out a contract that states the company will pay for production, promotion, distribution, etc but these amounts need to be paid back on the single and albums sales.

So, if an emerging artist makes an album that hits low on the charts, he or she makes nothing.

In my opinion, the music industry is ruthless and exploitive with emerging talent. Case in point: Australian pop icon Vanessa Amorosi scored a number one album called 'The Power'. Now she builds fences, plays the odd smallish concert, but hardly anyone remembers her.

Occasionally, you get a Madonna or a Kylie or a Britney, but these are rare considering the amount of singers out there.

And even Kylie had to struggle during the 90s.


Also, here's the news article (the top one) that I based my radio story: http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2004-04-29

I was waiting for someone to say that. And in under half an hour too.

One reason companies might not be making enough money on music is because people are buying more second-hand stuff.

I did a news story on music piracy for our uni radio show. One of the people I spoke to was a music lecturer who said he rarely bought a lot of new music. He mainly bought stuff from secondhand stores.

It's also a little interesting that music companies in Australia are complaining. Earlier this year, they released a media statement on their sales for 2003. They reported that their single sales for the year was at their lowest ever. What they didn't mention (and was fairly obvious from the figures) was that they recorded their highest CD music sales.

Here's that radio story I did (2.6 Mb):
http://www.sylpher.com/DGMacphee/Photoshop/Music%20Rebels2.mp3

I submitted it for assessment and it scored 19 out of 20. I lost 1 mark because the audio with the founding chairman of AMRA was sucky (He was on his mobile).

* DGMacphee breaks into a rousing rendition of 'Springtime for Hitler' with SSH!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Yeah, like go to Southbank! Good one, Pirate Jack!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!